Revolving sad-iron



PATENTED JAN. 5, 1904.

A. D. MAHONY.

REVOLVING SAD IRON. ArPLIoATIoN .FILED FEB. z5. 1903.

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Patented January 5, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT D. MAHONY, OF TROY, NEW YORK.

REVOLVING SAD-IRON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 748,627, dated January 5, 1904.

Application filed February 25, 1903. Serial No. 145,025. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.'

Beit known that I, ALBERT D. MAHONY, a citizen of the United States, residing at. Troy, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Revolving Sad-Irons, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to hand ironing de vices; and the objects of my invention are to provide an inexpensive ironing device which will require but little hand-power from the person using it, being easily controlled, and accomplish a large amount of textile-ironing in a short amount of time, although under full control and direction of the operator. I attain these objects by the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a longitudinal central section of an ironing device of conical form constructed in accordance with myinvention connected with its supporting-handle and a portion of a iexible power-shaft. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal central section of a modified form of ironing device provided with a guiding and operating handle at each end thereof. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of another form of ironing device, of which only one handle is shown. Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section on the line w o: of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a side view, partly in section, of a portion of another form of the ironing-tool, theV periphery of which is provided With small perforatious, (indicated at 30a.) Fig. 6 is a longitudinal section of the end of the half-cylindrical operating-shaft 5, showing its body portion 7 and a portion of its spring-shaft 8, said shaft 5 being alongside of a portion of a half-cylindrical rod 40 of the stem of the tool.

In said drawings letter A represents the ironing-tool proper, which is shown of conical form in Fig. 1 and has transversely of its iuterior a spiderplate 2, preferably integral with saidtool and provided with large perforations within the tool. -Attached to the plate 2 or preferably integral therewith there is a cylindrical stem 4, which has a central perforation lengthwise thereof to receive the operating-shaft 5, which is preferably halfcylindrical in cross-section and bears and iny terlocks against a half-cylindrical rod orprojection 40 in the interior of the tubular stem 4, and said rod is additionally secured thereto by rivets 6 passing diametrically through said stem 4. The shaft 5 has secured to one end the body portion 7, to which is secured one end of the coiled-spring shaft 8 of the usual form of flexible shafts. rllhe stem 4 of the revolving ironing-tool A is received in a tubular handle 9, which has its small end screw-threaded and has in engagement with it a ferrule 10. Said ferrule is screw-tapped internally for engagement with the end of the handle and receives in the other end a flexible rubber tube 1l, said tube constituting the case of the spring-shaft 8.

The frontend 12 of the handle 9 is of larger diameter than the body of said handle and its periphery is conical at 13 to constitute one of the cones of the ball-bearings of the ironingtool. Said front end 12 has its periphery screw-threaded and has screwed thereon the adjustable cone 14, which is well retained in position by the jam-nut 15 bearing against it.

To connect the tool A with the ball-bearings above mentioned, there is attached to the rear plate 16 a short tube 17, the rear end of which is lianged outwardly at 18, and said flanged portion has bolted thereto a ring 19, which has formed in its interior surface two oppositely-inclined cones 20, one of which will bear upon the stationary cone 13 and the other upon the cone 14 with the interposed balls 21.

To the side of the enlarged front end 12 of the handle 9 is secured a nipple 22, to which is attached a flexible tube 23 to bring infiammable gas into the device. Said gas is conducted through a tubular perforation 24, made into the front portion of the handle 9, and in the front end of the perforation 24 there is a tubular burner 25, the end of which is extended Within the ironing-tool A. To produce an active combustion of the gas after it is lighted Within said tool, there is secured to the rear plate 16 of said tool a series of curved paddles or concave buckets 26, which scoop the outer air and direct it Within the tool when it is rotated in the direction shown by the arrow in Fig. 4, the air entering through the perforations 27 in the rear plate 16; but one of the perforations 27 has a bucket 28 in ICO an inverted position to suck out the products of combustion and expel them laterally away from the tool.

In Fig. 2 the ironing-tool is of cylindrical form and havinga handle at each end. The parts above described are duplicated, and it can be rotated by aflexible shaft attached to either one or both of the operating-shafts 5. Each handle has also a tubular burner 25, and either one or both can be lighted and used to heat the ironing-tool.

In Fig. 3 the ironing-tool is shown with a handle of short length, due to the Want of space on the drawing. The cylindrical tool itself may be seven feet long for ironing bedsheets or other textile of great width and be provided with a handle and a burner at each end. In said figure the periphery of the ironing-tool is provided with aseries of small projections 30 of any sui-table form to concentrate the pressure of the tool upon a reduced surface and increase the polishing action of the tool, and the form of the projections can be varied at pleasure.

Fig. 5 shows a varied form of the ironingtool, the periphery of the cylinder in this instance being provided with small perforations, which are indicated at 30a.

Having now fully described my invention, I claim- 1. An ironing device consisting of an ironing-tool, a cylindrical stem centrally secured to said tool and means to rotate said stem and tool, with a handle surrounding said stem anda burner secured to said handle, substantially as described.

2. In an ironing device, the combination of an ironing-tool, a stem centrally secured to said tool and means to rotate said stem and tool, with a handle surrounding said stem, a burner secured to said handle and a flexible pipe leading gas to said burner, substantially as described.

3. In an ironing device, the combination of an ironing-tool, a stem centrally secured to said tool and means to rotate said stem and tool, with a handle surrounding said stem and having its inner end conical, a burner secured to said handle, cones secured to the radial outer plate of the tool, and balls between said cones and the conical end of the handle, substantially as described.

4. In an ironing device, the combination of an ironing-tool having a perforated end plate, a stem centrally secured to said tool and means to rotate said stem and tool, concave buckets secured to the perforated end plate adjacent to the perforations thereof, with a handle surrounding the stem of the tool, and a burner secured to said handle, substantially as described.

5. In an ironing device, the combination of a rotary ironing-tool having a series of small perforations in its periphery, astem centrally secured to said tool, and means to rotate said stem and tool, with a handle surrounding said stem, a burner secured to said handle, and a pipe leading gas to said burner, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT D. MAHONY.

Witnesses:

Louis S. HELM, JEREMIAH MAHONY. 

